Ted Bowley
Edward Henry Bowley
Born: 6 June 1890, Leatherhead, Surrey
Died: 9 July 1974, Winchester, Hampshire
Major Teams: Sussex, Auckland, England.
Known As: Ted Bowley
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Leg Break
Test Debut: England v South Africa at Leeds, 3rd Test, 1929
Last Test: England v New Zealand at Auckland, 4th Test, 1929/30
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1930
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 5 7 0 252 109 36.00 1 0 2 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 42 7 116 0 - - 0 0 - 2.76
FIRST-CLASS
(career: 1912 - 1934)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 510 859 47 28378 283 34.94 52 147 373 0
Balls R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 40818 19257 741 25.98 9-114 28 2 55.0 2.83
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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Profile:
Ted Bowley was an excellent, aggressive opening-bat. He hit 52
first-class centuries, but his opportunities at the highest level
were restricted by the presence in the England side of Hobbs and
Sutcliffe. Debuting for Sussex prior to the Great War, he played
his first full season in 1914, only to lose the next four years
to the war. He returned to Sussex in 1920, and scored over 1000
runs in each of fourteen successive seasons. He was particularly
strong off the back foot, with a superb cut, and excelled at the
force through the covers. He was a good player of slow bowling,
but if he had a fault it was his impatience, preferring to put
away the good length ball for runs rather than defend. He was
also a good leg-break bowler, who took 90 wickets in 1929, his
best season with both ball and bat. The same year he hit his
then highest first-class score of 280*, made in a day, and part of a
county record opening stand of 368 with J.H Parks. Four years
later, he (with 283) and John Langridge made 490 for the first wicket, a
record that still stands 67 years later, as does his
second-wicket partnership record of 385 with Maurice Tate from
1921.
With Hobbs out of contention, Bowley, in good form, made his Test
debut at the age of 39 against South Africa in 1929. After making
a respectable 31 in the first innings he played an important part
in England's win, making 46, and salvaging the second innings in
partnership with Woolley, after Sutcliffe and Hammond had been
dismissed with only 13 on the board. He failed in the next Test,
and Hobbs returned for The Oval, but Bowley was selected for the
winter tour of New Zealand (a second England team was
simultaneously touring the West Indies). He made his only Test
century in a match ruined by rain, and finished his Test career
with an innings of 42 in the fourth Test. On his retirement he
coached for 23 seasons at Winchester (DL 2000).
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